Taking online credit card payments via your website is a great way to allow your customers and clients to make payment. But exactly what is the process to implement it?
Firstly you need to get a merchant account through a bank. Note you should use one of the majors (some of ...

It is common practice these days to have a contact or enquiry form on your website. Often enquiries that are generated from this form are sent through to a specific email address, e.g. info@yourcompany.com.au.
Why don’t I get these enquiries? A bit of background.
There are a number of reasons why you ...

Earlier in 2015 : Google released a new mobile-friendly ranking algorithm that was designed to boost mobile-friendly pages in mobile search results.
There are two ways to have a "mobile friendly" site
Option A: Build a completely seperate site
Option B (Recommended): Make your current site "responsive" (e.g adapt to mobile devices). (Better ...

Firstly what is an SSL certificate?
An SSL certificate is a small file that is installed on a web server, that stores a companies identity via a cryptographic key. When a user browsers a site with an SSL certificate installed, the browser will display a "padlock" (or the address will go green), indicating that any ...

Getting good quality links to your website is critical for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). But how do you go about finding good quality links, as well as actually securing them from the relevant site owner?
Some guides:
Getting a link from a site that has nothing to do with your industry or ...

We are proud today to announce the launch of QR Concrete new corporate website.
QR Concrete's primary role is a provider of concrete contracting services to builders, project managers, developers and property owners in the commercial and industrial arena.
more: www.qrc.com.au

Can you believe that the big man in the red suit is almost here? The TMD Online team is taking a well-deserved break over the Chrissy holidays. During this time we will be recharging the batteries, drinking the odd brewski and hoping that something special gets dropped into our Christmas ...

The year has absolutely just flown past! And as always we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our valued clients and suppliers for their business and support in 2014 and look forward to working with you all in 2015.
We will be taking a break over the Christmas ...

The world wide web consists entirely of a huge collection of links. Hooking into this global network, although challenging, is an important task that is often over looked by website owners.
Getting other websites to link to yours has two distinct benefits:
1. Helps get people to your website
2. Can boost your page rank ...

If you are looking at processing credit cards via your website, you should seriously take a look at the Stripe payment gateway.
Why our clients like Stripe:
Stripe is an “all in one” merchant and payment gateway. It is very fast / easy to setup (all done online). You can be operating ...

TMD Online is currently working on our new billing and job management platform (which we’ve codenamed “Wrangler”).
Key Features
Key features that you can expect to see from Wrangler rolled out over the coming months:
Ability to view and pay invoices online
Check balances of accounts
View statements
View account activity (payments, reminders, notes)
Better client notifications ...

For years we've spoken about how important Search Engine Optimisation is for the vast majority of websites. However when looking at a page, what does Google find important?
Title tag. The title tag is what appears in the "tab" name at the top of the browser.
The Heading 1 tag (this is ...

One of the web’s most oldest (and surviving) plugins "Flash" is officially being retired by Adobe in 2020. Flash has been on the way out for the past few years, as browsers (such as Chrome, IE) are disabling Flash.
What was Flash used for?
Flash in it’s heyday was heavily used ...

Welcome to the February edition of URL.
In this issue we look at why your site needs a refresh, we take a look at the recent ePublishing we've done for Wet Paper Publications, and give you some ideas about why you should review your website. Enjoy :)
Need a website review? Reasons ...

Wordpress is an open sourced blogging platform used by a lot of sites worldwide. However there are times when Wordpress is great, and when it is not so great.
First Up ...
If your site is basically a blog (or is very news oriented), Wordpress is a fantastic option to consider using. ...

The year has absolutely just flown past! And as always we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our valued clients and suppliers for their business and support in 2014 and look forward to working with you all in 2015.
We will be taking a break over the Christmas ...

Welcome to the August edition of URL. In this edition we welcome "Bob", look at a recent project for Sunnyside Meats, and our Email Marketing Partner Vision 6 offers advice and a free e-guide for mobile friendly email design.
Bob is here!
We are pleased to announce that Bob (our new helpdesk ...

We are pleased to announce that Bob (our new helpdesk system) is now fully up and running. We sent an invite to all our current clients earlier this month. If you didn't receive an invite - please click here, and we will get you logged in and using Bob straight ...

When you resize a photo smaller, your photo editor (we used Industry standard Photoshop) will need to remove pixels from the image. (smaller images, contain less pixels).
During this “removal” of pixels, Photoshop is trying to figure out how to best remove pixels, and reassemble the edges in the image. As ...

When you are sending email campaigns yourself (either using our own self managed campaign tool or third party software), here is a handy check list we've developed at TMD Online to make sure your campaigns are sent error free.
Mobile Devices
Over the last five years we have seen average mobile "opens" increase ...

It is common practice these days to have a contact or enquiry form on your website. Often enquiries that are generated from this form are sent through to a specific email address, e.g. info@yourcompany.com.au.
Why don’t I get these enquiries? A bit of background.
There are a number of reasons why you ...

Welcome to the May edition of URL. The year is already flying past (can you believe it's almost the end of financial year!) and we've been busy working on our new support ticketing system which we've nicknamed ... "Bob".
Meet Bob ...
"Bob" is our new support ticketing system. Basically he is ...

A lot of progress has been made in the past few years, in regards to getting fonts to display on your website. In the past we were limited to either using “standard fonts” (e.g. Arial, Verdana) for all text, or embedding text inside a graphic or flash file (which is ...